On Wed, 12 Dec 2012, Alan Stern wrote: > On Wed, 12 Dec 2012, Bjørn Mork wrote: > > > Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > > > If you read the confidentiality notice, you'll see that it merely says > > > that the contents of the email _may_ be confidential. Also, it warns > > > people who _aren't_ the intended addressees -- but if the message was > > > sent to a public email list then obviously there are no such people. > > > > > > So I don't see any problem. > > > > Then I guess you missed this unconditional part?: > > > > "be aware that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of this > > e-mail or any attachment is prohibited. " > > > > This means that victor is deliberately violating his company policy by > > continuing to send emails to a public list, which is the direct action > > causing disclosure, copying and distribution of the e-mail. You can of > > course not blame list admins or subscribers here. > > > > I still do not see how a patch with such restrictions can be useful to > > anyone. But I am not the one to decide that... > > This is wrong, partly because you are quoting out of context and partly > because of a grammatical error in the original notice. Here's the text > with the context retained: > > If you are not the intended addressee (or authorized to receive > for the addressee). be aware that any disclosure, copying, > distribution or use of this e-mail or any attachment is > prohibited. > > It is clear, from the lack of capitalization of the word "be" and the > fact that the preceding text is only a sentence fragment, that the > period following the close-parenthesis was meant to be a comma. > Therefore this prohibition applies only to people who are not meant to > be reading an open mailing list -- and there are no such people. > > This means that victor did not violate any policies. One more thing. If you interpret literally just the part of the sentence that you quoted above, it becomes nonsense. "... any ... use of this e-mail or any attachment is prohibited" would mean that the intended recipient was not allowed to read the message! It's like the old joke about the warnings that used to be placed above Super Top-Secret messages: "Burn Before Reading". :-) Alan Stern -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
